In January 2014, the EPA released its final watershed assessment on the potential impacts of large scale mining on Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon fishery.

The science is complete, and it's definitive. There's simply no way to avoid severe impacts. Even under routine operation,

> 94 miles of salmon streams would be destroyed by the mine footprint (maximum size studied)
> 33 miles of streams would be harmed by altered flows, and
> polluted water from the mine site would enter streams

Not surprisingly, Northern Dynasty, the company behind the proposed mine has questioned the science. Yet, the study has undergone a rigorous review process with two full rounds of peer review by a panel of twelve independent scientists. The EPA will rely heavily on the Final Bristol Bay watershed assessment in its 404(c) assessment.

Bristol Bay Native Corporation (created by Congress to represent the economic and cultural interests of Alaska Native people in Bristol Bay region; the largest land-owner in the Bristol Bay region representing almost 8,700 native shareholders)

Alaska Native leaders, English angler celebrities, scientists and more available for interviews.

The award-winning documentary, Red Gold, follows the world's largest run of sockeye salmon from Alaska's Bristol Bay to their natal spawning grounds. The film weaves in the extraordinary stories of the Alaska Native people and commercial fishermen whose lives and traditions the salmon sustain. The proposed Pebble mine, a massive gold-copper-molybdenum deposit, now threatens to devastate those pristine spawning grounds.